value of desktop power supplies?

ilyaz · Oct 9, 2011

Has anyone sold many computer power supplies from taken apart desktops. I used to take them apart for the little copper and alum. I've put a couple of 400+ watt ones on eBay and sold them. My question is this: are those with more wattage tend to sell better than low-powered ones? Or does it depend more on a specific brand/type of a supply? So far I've been discarding those that are less than 300 watt thinking that they are not worth my time trying to sell them. Am I wrong?

Thanks

Claudie · Oct 9, 2011

You can sell them for scrap value. boardsort.com buys them and has the current prices listed on the website. I usually sell the tin to the local yard and salvage the Copper & Aluminum for resale. The brown boards can be sold to the cash for Gold people.

ilyaz · Oct 9, 2011

Claudie said:
You can sell them for scrap value. boardsort.com buys them and has the current prices listed on the website. I usually sell the tin to the local yard and salvage the Copper & Aluminum for resale. The brown boards can be sold to the cash for Gold people.

Thanks, but what he's offering for them is less than the cost of shipping. "Discarding" did not mean throwing away but rather scrapping as tin. My question was about their value as working units sold as parts rather than scrap.

joem · Oct 9, 2011

Claudie said:
The brown boards can be sold to the cash for Gold people.

What? Is this another way to make money from this? Oh, don't get me going...

Claudie · Oct 9, 2011

joem said:
Claudie said:

The brown boards can be sold to the cash for Gold people.

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What? Is this another way to make money from this? Oh, don't get me going...

Go read this post. http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=10391 There is a link to the place I sold the low grade brown boards to along with the price I got. I robbed the boards of anything good before shipping them away. I took the transformers, any Aluminum, Copper, and any chips that looked valuable.

Claudie · Oct 9, 2011

On a side note. I don't think I would want to send them anything other than the low quality brown boards. I heard they pay the same price no matter what you send them.

RESET · Oct 10, 2011

Has anyone sent them anything of significant quantity? I saw someone mention gaylords in the other thread. I don't have gaylords full of brown boards myself but I was curious since they pay shipping. Do you tell them the weight before they send the label?